CNW 8025 brings a potash train past Airport (named for Mitchell Field) on Milwaukee's south side on a crisp February day in 1991. The train is on CNW's New Line.

A bay-window waycar (caboose) trails a southbound Chicago & North Western freight as it crosses the lengthy Nemadji River Bridge at Boylston, Wisconsin, on October 19, 1985. This train is operatin... (more)

A Chicago & North Western freight is southbound on the Burlington Northern’s former Great Northern bridge over the Nemadji River just south of Boylston, Wisconsin, on October 19, 1985. A trio of... (more)

Doing what Alco's do best, CNW 6710 smokes it up as it departs Brampton, MI in May of 1986 after meeting an empty ore train heading north. Not much ore traffic remains on this line since Empire mi... (more)

Loaded with “Pink Lady” quartz ballast from the company-owned Rock Springs quarry, a Chicago & North Western ballast train departs Janesville, Wisconsin, on the morning of July 8, 1995. The ea... (more)

CNW 6888 leads a Falcon across the swollen Cedar River in Cedar Rapids, IA in August of 1993. Once a gauntlet bridge, it is single track in this photo. A bottleneck for traffic for many years, the... (more)

CNW Alco Rs11 4251 and C425 402 wait for there next job on a sunny morning in the summer of 1981. This was Alco country on the North Western. the 4251 was CNWs only High nose RS11

On loan from the Mid Continent Railway Museum, Ten Wheeler #1385 leads a special west across the CNW mainline in Iowa.

CNW SD38-2 6656 with transfer at Ash crossing, after Sunset

A westbound Chicago & North Western freight curves through North Lake, Wisconsin, on October 6, 1990. A pair of EMD SD40-2s in “Zito” yellow, power the train on the railroad’s Adams Line.

In a view from wading into the water, Chicago & North Western’s Janesville to Chicago freight crosses the Tiffany Bridge over Turtle Creek at Tiffany, Wisconsin, on the morning of July 1, 1995. ... (more)

Chicago & North Western locomotives await assignment at the railroad’s engine facility at Proviso, Illinois, on September 13, 1987. C&NW’s Proviso Yard was the railroad’s major yard in the C... (more)

An empty Chicago & North Western ore train enters Partridge Siding, Michigan, on the C&NW Partridge Sub. A string of loads is on one of the sidings, waiting for a trio of Alcos to take them to Esc... (more)

On a rainy morning in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, a trio of Chicago & North Western C628’s lead a trainload of ore bound for Escanaba at Goose Lake.

With three ex-Norfolk & Western C628’s in charge, an empty Chicago & North Western ore train crosses the causeway at Goose Lake, Michigan.